YOU CAN PROFIT FROM THE DEATH OF THE LEGACY MEDIA

➡ Dave Hodges, host of the Common Sense show, discusses the importance of independent media and citizen journalism. He criticizes the mainstream media and the elite, and encourages listeners to support independent news platforms. He also warns about potential economic instability and the importance of protecting personal assets. Lastly, he introduces Sam Anthony, who runs a local news content distribution platform, and they discuss the future of news media, emphasizing the rise of citizen journalism.
➡ The article discusses a news platform that has over 6,000 independent reporters covering local and global news. The platform supports creators by providing technology that enhances advertising revenue and sells ads. It also allows creators to monetize their content, similar to YouTube. The platform aims to be a global, hyper-local news platform where the public can interact and share narratives, and reporters can submit their work without censorship.
➡ The future of news reporting is shifting towards citizen journalism, with local community members reporting on events and sharing them on platforms that allow for wider distribution and monetization. Traditional media is struggling to adapt to this change, which is leading to a rise in the creator economy. Websites like MaxPreps, which covers high school sports, are examples of this shift. The future also includes platforms like Spaces, where people can host live shows on various topics, further expanding the reach of content creators.
➡ The speaker discusses their concerns about a potential new pandemic, possibly related to Ebola, based on Canadian research. They also touch on the impact of lockdowns, the role of media, and political issues. The speaker expresses dissatisfaction with the current state of affairs, including data centers’ influence and the use of weapons of mass destruction as a pretext for conflict.
➡ The speaker discusses their platform, which focuses on local news and is supported by local advertisers. They have around 6,000 creators and aim to increase this to between 50,000 and 100,000. The platform’s value is determined by the number of creators, with each creator adding around $10,000 to the value. They are raising funds through an equity crowdfund, allowing the public to invest in the platform.
➡ The speaker is discussing the potential growth of a creator-based platform, aiming to challenge the control of the narrative by legacy media. They’re seeking investors, with the goal of reaching a billion-dollar valuation at 100,000 content creators. The speaker believes the future lies in creator-based platforms, as younger audiences are moving away from traditional media. They also discuss the possibility of extraterrestrial life, sharing anecdotes and theories.
➡ The text discusses a meeting held by Bill in La Placitas, New Mexico, where attendees shared stories about technological advancements that are far ahead of what is publicly known. The text also mentions a whistleblower’s claim about COVID-19 being a lab leak from China, and the importance of truthful, uncensored information. It further talks about an equity crowdfund to prevent media control by powerful entities, and the expansion of a news outlet to include international news and diverse content like hockey news. The text ends with an invitation for people to become content creators and investors in this endeavor.

Trouble. Hey everybody, Dave Hodges here, host of the Common Sense show where the show freeing America one enslaved mind at a time. And we serve God, family, country, not the selfish interests of the elite, both in the media and government. You know, we’re pretty much done with them, but we need your help to toss them all. As in like we need that website. Toss them all dot com. All the incumbents out except for Massie. I heard he’s running in the general now. Boy, is that good news. And I’m going to help him raise some money. I don’t think I can match the Israeli donors that opposing, but I’m going to try and we’re going to work on that.

Anyway, we have a really good show. We have Sam Anthony with us and we’re going to talk about all things media. Before we do need to let you know we’re coming to you from the Noble Gold studios. And with the way the economy’s going and Trump’s stubbornness with regard to Iran and what’s happening to the economy and the wheels are coming off this summer, folks. That’s a given. If even if we turn things around, we would have at least three to four months of hell to pay. And so what do you need to do when your bank starts to go south? Well, they could take your money.

Dodd Frank, 2010. It’s the law. UCC Code, Section 8. Well, let Noble Gold help you. Not just about buying gold, although I recommend that it’s also about protecting your retirement. Your retirement is associated with the bank. Wave bye bye. Because those days are coming for some of you. That’s right. They can bail you in. And there’s not a darn thing you can do about it. Well, don’t give them the opportunity. Call 8776-4653-4787-7646-5347. You can tell by my tone I’ve had enough. The gloves are off. We’re going to war today. We’re going to war against establishment media.

If you like Jesse waters and his UFOs. The. They’re coming to get me. Ha ha ha ha. I mean, come on, Jesse. Really? Is that what you went to journalism school for? Anyway, welcome my guest. It’s. It’s good to hear from you. I have not drank 10 cups of coffee, although I know I look like it. And glad to be with you. And Sam is the sponsor of your news. And it’s literal. Your news. Not corporate media. Not the banksters, not the gangsters in Congress that can do insider trading that would send you to prison. Your news.

Sam, welcome to the show. And as a starter, just tell people briefly what your news means. Well, we’re a hyper local news content distribution platform. Our website would look like any daily news website, but we’re in every city in the United States with the ability to target ads around, right down to a zip code around specific types of content. So in terms of scale, everybody’s been to a news website, whether it’s azcentral or the Miami Herald or Chicago Tribune. When you go to a section like sports, you know how there’s space for people to buy ads around the content? Yeah.

However many ads they can put in that and around that content, we can do in one zip code. Dave. It’s like having 70,000 different editions. So you’re talking, talking massive scale. Ads are on a best bid basis. And then we’re a content distribution platform, so we can serve news to a city, to a county, to a market, state, regional, or national. We have almost 6,000 independent news reporters. And FYI, everybody kind of knows this by now. Legacy media is not going to survive. Everything is moving to platforms, right? Everybody understands YouTube. It’s a platform. Everybody understands Rumble.

It’s a platform. Facebook and x are platforms. YouTube has 61 million channels, and they had 3 billion visitors last month versus rumble has 250,000 channels, and they had a little over 50 million visitors. We have 6,000 creators that do local news, and last month we had about a million and a half people on our site. So, yes, I know. So it’s real simple, David. If I want to double my traffic, I double my content creators. Because the magic formula to any social site is very simple. It’s content equals readership. The void we fill, though, is the collapse of the legacy media.

That’s why what we do is so important. Because the reason we’re in this mess, the one that we’re in today, Dave, is because of the legacy media. But that’s the reason you do this, because you remember, you couldn’t get the media to talk about your story, so you had to get out and talk about it, your story, yourself. The point is, is how many people on YouTube or on Rumble actually went to broadcast journalism school? Percentage wise, almost nobody. Yeah, I know. Listen, I didn’t. You know how. That’s the point. John McCain tried to steal my land, that of my neighbors, and I was a dummy.

At a public meeting and I spoke up about the fifth Amendment, they go, you’re the spokesperson. Boy, did my life ever change after that. And. And you’re Absolutely right. Tell you a funny story about this. When we started to win public opinion over with our issue, they were seizing our property, not doing eminent domain for pennies on the dollar, just flat one to take it. And so I’m actually at the editorial board for the Arizona Republic. You mentioned AZ Central, that’s their site. And we’re there with Vanita Hawthorne James, the senior editorial person, and we’re just kicking butt on the Constitution and we got our facts in order.

And she said, well, all that’s well and good, but for the good of the country, you should just give up your land. And I said, without any compensation? She goes, yes, this is why people hate the mainstream media. My God, you should just give it up. It was about to, it was the Central American Free Trade Agreement and they wanted to put a Can Amex highway through our area and build a hub in our area with, with light air rail and highway for trucking. And it was called a multimodal hub. And they wanted our area and they targeted us year before, but we got all the housing permits legally and built, you know, in good faith, followed all the rules.

And then they go, well, we’ve changed our mind. Now we want to steal your land. And here the legacy media was telling me that’s okay and for the good of the country, I should just shut up and get off my land. True story, Sam. Now what if the bank owned the land? Like, what if you had like a 10 or 20% down and they had 80% of it? Would the bank have to give it up too you, or would you still have to pay? You’d still have to pay. Oh my God, that’s just so ridiculous. Yeah, we don’t want to buy it, we want to steal it.

We had people that, that were in our general area say like the, the dad got a job and he had to move to Indiana, couldn’t sell the property. Who’s going to buy a property is going to be condemned? And they had about 25 to 30 years to build out so they could drag their wheels on this. But, but move us in the direction where you can’t sell. We couldn’t get a permit, I couldn’t get a permit to build a fence. If we’d had a fire in the kitchen, I couldn’t have got a permit to rebuild. That’s how bad it was.

And the media was just fine with this. Isn’t that crazy? Yeah. So look, here’s, it’s, it’s all good riddance, right? I mean, I, I don’t ever Hear any really good stories. And, you know, the good news is, I mean, we live in a. In a world where you have centralized news, right? I mean, because all these big companies came in and bought everything up. So they’re really just the spokespeople for the people up at the top, right? And everybody saw the, you know, the, the videos where, you know, it’s a threat to our democracy with the 50 TV saying the same thing at the same time.

I mean, if that doesn’t. If that doesn’t sell you on the fact that you’re living in a world of centralized news, you know, they’re just the mouthpieces for the people up at the up. So, you know, ultimately, all that’s shifting. YouTube created a technology where anybody could become a broadcast journalist. What we’ve done is created technology where anybody could become a local news reporter. And this is already happening. I mean, everybody’s heard of Nick Shirley at this moment in time, right? Here’s a kid who’s 23 years old, never been to journalism school, never worked for a radio or TV station or a newspaper, yet the guy’s now on the national stage and he’s breaking massive stories and he’s got a monster following.

That’s where it’s all headed, Dave. It’s. It’s all headed to citizen journalism. All I am is the aggregator of all of it, okay, where we can publish stories by subject and geography. So it could be something from your kids little league game, which is sports news, to a city, to the high school football game, which is sports, to news, to a market, to, you know, obviously the Monday Night football game, which is sports news, national. It’s all about how we consume information and the distribution of that information. But now, Dave, I got news for you. I’ve got almost 6,000 independent news reporter reporters covering local news all over the United States and the world.

This morning I had a zoom call with a journalist out of. Out of Rome, Italy. And this is somebody that’s now going to be reporting on news that’s coming out of Italy. That would be more world news that goes in our World News section. How freaking cool is that? Yeah. Will it be pasta or Future News? Just kidding. Sorry. I couldn’t resist the play on words. That’s pretty cool, though. But, you know, and the good thing about the Europeans, they teach eight years of English in their schools. So you’re going to get someone who’s probably English literate.

She speaks. I spoke to her today. I mean, she speaks broken English, but she understands at least I hope, I mean, her and I had probably a half hour conversation. Yeah, I’m kind of excited that we now have boots on the ground and at the Vatican, basically. Right. I mean, it’s Rome. That’s pretty cool. Yeah, I like, I like the fact the Pope is in Chicago, by the way. He came out yesterday and basically implied that AI is Satan. It depends on who’s using it and for what reason, how they use it. I agree. It’s, it’s neutral on his face.

I agree with that. Yeah, exactly. I, you. I use it all the time and it’s, I don’t consider it Satan. I mean, it helps me with a lot of stuff and. Yeah. You know, but if you’re using it for evil purposes, then it would be considered evil. Right. I mean, I, I’ll tell you this. The people in Georgia that had their homes bought up for pennies on the dollar and they’re being bought out by the power company to supply the data centers, I think they think it’s Satan. And I think the people In Lake Tahoe, 50,000 people losing their electrical source next year, if that can go to the data centers, they think it’s Satan.

So. Yeah, it just depends on how it’s used. I totally agree with you. Well, the, the trick is if you want to control everything, Dave, you, you know, you really need to control information. I mean, look what happened with YouTube. You want to tell that story to your audience about YouTube and now you get censored? No, I wanna, I wanna play this on YouTube. Yes. So the, the point is we’ll leave that alone. And, and I never got a good answer on what happened to us. I’ve never had it explained. So anyway, happy to be back on YouTube.

They’re so fair and virtuous. Thank you for being a great partner. Yeah, very good. Anyway, so you got 6,000 creators. You write news down to the zip code level. This is absolutely amazing. Now people who write, can they make money on your site? So there’s two types of creators you have monetized and non monetized. The non monetized would be PR firms, non profits. So you could have a church that’s having a bake sale that submits that. You can have a nonprofit like the Cancer Society is going to have a 5k run or some event and they could submit that stuff.

That stuff is non monetized. You could have a person that says, you know, I’m selling. We have a classified section. So they’re selling something. You know, it could be a kitchen table that Goes in our classified sections. Those are non monetized. But then you have a monetization model that works just like YouTube does. So everybody’s familiar with YouTube and how they monetize people. But, but it’s not just YouTube. Rumble monetizes. X monetizes. I think Facebook monetizes, right, where if your content gets enough traction, you get a percentage of the ad revenue. So the way our model works is our creators are the ones that are the draw.

They bring their audience and they build a following on our platform. No different than you have a following on Rumble and you have a following on YouTube and you have a following on some of the other podcasts, the audio podcast. So whenever you post something, it immediately alerts your followers that, you know, Dave Hodges that just submitted something. And then what happens is those people click the link, we sell the ads, and the content creators get a percentage of the ad revenue that appears around their content. It’s. At the end of the day, I’m not in the news business, Dave.

I’m in the platform business. Yeah, that’s true. Just, just like, just like YouTube is and just like Facebook is, our job is to support the creators and to provide technology that allow or that enhances the advertising revenue and then to go out and sell the ads. That’s what we do. But it’s the scale, Dave. So as a, you’re a conservative, but you’re alternative media. And the reason you do this is because the media failed you. What’s happening now is a paradigm from the old legacy media, which is going out of business, to new media and everything’s going to create our economies.

It’s not a guess. Okay, if you want to know why Tik Tok and Instagram have like 100 million users on them. YouTube, I told you, has 61 million channels. They had 3 billion people. If you take all the media combined, Dave, they don’t even come close to that in a year. In a year. So you can’t compete when you have a million content creators that are all driving traffic to their own content on one hub. So our niche is local news because now we have the ability to make a story appear in a specific city, a county, a market, and then by topics, sports, business, politics, entertainment, world, us.

So you have all these different categories. So I estimate with all the different categories we have, I mean we’re talking everything from travel to food and wine to home and garden, faith based stuff, we could have about 50 content creators per city, which, you know, you’re talking almost 20,000 cities you’re looking at about a million content creators, and that’s just the United States. We’re in the process right now of getting ready to open up Canada. That’s the next launch. So there’ll be country number two coming up. It’s an easy one because it borders us. Right. But ultimately I could, I could assure you what’s going to happen with news.

The next mainstream media is going to be a hyper local news platform exactly like what we do with a social component where the public can interact and share in the narrative locally, along with a monetization model where news reporters could submit their work freely without censorship and get paid on it. A self service ad platform where somebody could buy their own ad and target it to one zip code and then it’ll most likely be global. Well, let me ask you this. What, what kind of people do you shadow ban? So I don’t, we don’t shadow pan anybody.

I have yet to ever ban anybody on anything, Dave. Okay, listen, I hear about it all the time because you know how many creators come to me that say, look, you know, how do I know you’re not going to censor my stuff? I go, well, you know, we’re a platform and if you write an opinion, I will tell you this, if you put it in the news part and it’s an opinion, it’s going to be moved to opinions. That’s not, that’s not shadow banning anything. That’s just calling it what it is. If you want to report news, you report news.

But if you put your two cents into it, it’s no longer news anymore. It’s your opinion. Right. So I, as far as I’m concerned, you need to have a free flow of information so the public can decide what’s in their best interest. I’m sure you would agree. Well, I agree, but the purveyors of this society do not agree. No, they do not. So I’m not going to be a very popular guy. As we start scaling this up and you get to, my guess is by the time we get to 20 or 30,000 creators, Dave, this thing is going to take on a life of its own.

I mean, it’s already becoming. What is the critical mass for you? Do you think? You think it’s 20 or 30,000? Yeah, because you know, right now we bring in between two and three thousand articles a week. You know, because you have some creators that are PR firms or nonprofits that might do three stories a year. Right. You know, they don’t have tons of content, but then you have some people that are doing five, six stories a day. You know, news reporters covering local things. The bank robbery, the car crash, the city council meeting, like all that local stuff.

And we’re talking maybe four, five, six paragraphs, and they’re spitting out five, six stories a day. So it just depends. But as you keep scaling up, remember, nobody’s hiring in the news business. It’s not like I have any competition. It’s either me or go pick a different occupation. Because it’s all heading. It’s all heading to platforms with monetization. But here’s the beauty. The next news reporter in your community is not going to be somebody from mainstream media. It’s going to be your neighbor, somebody, you know that signs up to become a citizen journalist on our platform and then it’s already happening.

And then writes a story and then sends it to David, goes, hey, Dave, here’s here. I was just at the city council meeting. Here’s what happened. But you already trust that person. That’s where it’s all headed. It can’t be stopped. I’m just the aggregator of all of it. I love weird. Yes. So we’re bringing all the country’s information under one umbrella, creating one uniform media. That’s what we are doing. TV and radio is next. TV and radio is absolutely next. And it’s not. It’s not that people don’t watch news, people are going to watch, but it’s just how it’s consumed that’s changed.

So it’s all going to be streaming and mainstream media can’t. You know, it’s kind of like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. Right? I mean, it’s. They just can’t make the switch. So all that stuff’s going away. And it’s all going to be a creator economy. And the void we fill is the collapse of legacy media. The niche is the local. Remember, anybody could do national news, but try doing the high school football game in every market. It. Dave, you know who does that? Well, who. Are you familiar with Max Preps? No. Never heard of it.

Okay, who is it? It’s a. It’s a site for high school sports. And virtually I. I would say almost every high school in America is on this site. And if you put in the name of the school, say, like George Washington High School, just for example, and you go there to. And it pulls up their homepage and it has boys sports, girls sports, click on one of them, has their rosters, the coach, the schedule, the results of the games, has their statistics and the People that run the site locally at the school can actually put little mini videos up and they have a lot of advertising that they embed in it.

But it’s pretty. What is it. What is it called? Max Preps. Go to MaxPreps.com and they’re everywhere. They have your state standings, they have state rankings, national rankings. It’s really anyone who coaches high school sports or has a kid that plays understands what this site is. And it’s really kind of a. A mini version on a real narrow topic of what you’re doing. And they’ll have occasional articles, but I gotta tell you, AI writes them and they’re not very good. Okay. It’ll say, like, team number one beat team number two 54 to 37 in overtime and so.

And so scored so many points. But they never tell you the real story of the game. That’s. That’s the one weakness of that. You don’t get the depth, but you get superficial coverage. So I get it. No, no, those. I want to take a look at what they do because I’m the aggregator of all of that. It’s like later on today, I’m talking to a couple people that own a hockey website. They do National Hockey news, right? So I want to see what they’re doing because they could create a channel on our network, one of those author pages.

Like, I have other news outlets, and I become broader distribution and monetization for them makes sense. It’s the same thing with Max Preps. We’ll see what they do and if it’s a fit. I’m. I’m just looking for more content. That’s all I want. Well, I’m going to break a story here for you, Sam. And I don’t know how far away from doing it I am because I’m going to get some help, but I’m going to start a Spaces channel. Are you familiar with that? Well, I’ve heard of it, but I’ve never been on the site before.

How. Is it an old site? No, it’s. I don’t know how old it is, but I would say a couple, three years. But it’s on X. And people will run shows on that, like radio shows and it’s on X. And then a lot of times people run the show. Usually. Usually it’s live. People come in and they raise their hand. They want to ask questions so you can click them on. It’s just like. Like you were listening to coast to Coast. And they have callers and they have guests and so forth. And a Lot of people have told me because of my interest in quantum physics and psychology and powers of the mind and stuff.

They said you could do an crude estimation of an Art Bell kind of show. Late Night. People told me this for years. Well, I think, you know, because I’ve been shadowed so badly that I’m actually thinking now this is probably something that we’re going to do here. I just have to learn the mechanics of it. And I’ve heard it’s not that hard. So I’ve been on a couple of Spaces shows as guests, and one guy, he had an audience of a couple hundred thousand. So here’s what someone could do if they had a Spaces show. The show then is kept, like in an archive.

You just send the link over to your site. Okay, you gotta try it. I did the show last night. You send the link over to your site today and you have it. And people have spaces on all different kinds of topics. Most of them are geopolitical, though. And this is on X. This is on X. I gotta go check it out. So if you put spaces and X, you’d have that. Well, I learned about it from my friend Scotty Sacks. I think you know Scotty. I do. And ex Hollywood producer, has his own show on Salem Radio.

Really good guy. And in fact, I told you, Sarah and I, Sarah Weston, are doing a commercial shoot this weekend in Vegas. Scotty’s the manager of it. He’s the one that set it up. So Scotty and I talked about Spaces last night on the phone for about a half an hour. So I think it’s something I’m going to do now. You know, I’m not going to get into all the esoteric stuff Art Bell did, but I think there’s a market for the show. I’m not a fan of the present coast to Coast. The last time they had a good guest host on there, Our good host on there, I should say, was John B.

Wells. And they got rid of him for telling the truth. And John. John and I are friends. I gotta say, I’m biased. That’s kind of a funny story, though. He knew he was going to get fired, so he was secretly preparing Caravan to Midnight. And I was talking to him about this and Coast to coast, even though Lisa Lyons, the producer, wanted me on. Jim Mars was a popular guest. He tried to get me on. They wouldn’t let me come on the show and I don’t know that I’m dangerous, but they said, no, he can’t come on.

And so John tried to get me on, they wouldn’t let him have me on. So anyway, he ends up getting fired. I was livid because his numbers on the weekend were better than George and Ori’s during the week. And so I wrote two articles, two biggest articles in the history of the Common Sense show website. One had 2 million, the other had like 800,000. And basically I was saying, leave coast, go to Caravan, buy their subscription, same price, better quality, better host. And people start leaving. John jokingly says, he says, dave Hodges, the guy that built Caravan to midnight when I go on his show, he said that before, but interesting.

George called me. I don’t think George Norrie is a bad guy at all. I’m not saying that. And he called me up and he asked me to stop. I said, why George? He said, you’re killing me. He said, all these people are leaving. I said, george, all I did was put your numbers up for listeners. And what John got, I said, and I just encourage people to follow the popular guy. And so he offered, says, well, Dave, I could have you on the show. I go, it’s a little late for that. I think I’ve taken sides.

So anyway, that’s my history with Coast. But I’m thinking there’s a market for this though, I would suspect, I mean, look, all content creators need to need broader distribution and monetization. So anytime you could get your stuff pushed out through another platform, you’re going to reach a broader audience. I mean, that’s just crazy not to. Well, when we’re all stuck in our houses because we can’t get gas, I’ll have a captive audience. Oh, there you go. So everybody will tune in to listen to you. See how that works? You could be broadcasting on every platform in the world.

Yeah, I mean, I, I have to tell you, when I was selling advertising on YouTube, my best revenue days were during the COVID lockdowns because people had nowhere to go. Right. And the products that we were selling, you could just order on phone or on the Internet. So, yeah, it was a stunning time in our history. I think we’re headed for another lockdown though. I just, I just fear I smell a pandemic just for reasons I was telling you for. When on the air I smell a pandemic coming. Well, I hope you’re wrong. I do too.

But that pandemic would start with an E, not with an H. I. Sure. I really, I really hope you’re wrong on that one. Okay. I really hope you’re wrong. Well, you know, I found some Canadian research. It’s going to bother you when I tell you this. We think that Ebola, and that’s what we’re talking about, can only be transferred through bodily contact, exchange of fluids and things like that the Canadians found in 2014, and it’s in their scientific literature, but the CDC kept it out of ours that Ebola can survive on inanimate objects for a certain amount of time.

It also can be aerosolized and like with sneezing droplets and stuff like that. The, there was a study in Canada said actually can travel up to 28ft. I’m not making this up, saying I found the research in Canada and so it can spread a lot worse. And here’s the bad thing, it’s 90% fatal. Is there a cure? Is there some kind of cure for it or is there a vaccine? No. People beg for death. You bleed out of every orifice. It’s a horrible death. So then, so then this kills everybody, period. Nobody’s safe. Well, it seems like 10% of the population have an immunity.

That’s what they found in the Congo in their mortality studies. They found that about, there’s about a 10% survival rate. So. Well, let’s hope you’re wrong. Let’s hope you’re wrong, Dave. Well, one of the things that DHS and the border patrol were afraid of during the open borders of Biden was that we would have a real deadly pathogen come into the country. We’re lucky that didn’t happen. You know, I mean so at some point in time something is going to happen. The question question is what and when. We don’t know what that’s going to be. So.

Well, it’s, we can speculate on it, but you have to keep pushing forward. You know, my, my whole game plan is to build the largest media company in the world. You know, I’m talking about hyper local news where now we don’t have to deal with mainstream media because now it’s a people powered press and it’s owned by the people. I can see now the cameras spanning the streets on your news channels and they go look at, no one’s on the street because we’re all in lockdown. And so they’ll, they’ll have, we’ll have Internet parties. You know, I sure hope you’re wrong.

I live in Florida so they’re not locking anything down here. I, I think here they just already said we’re done with it. What was the state, was it Montana that didn’t shut down? What state didn’t show was, maybe it wasn’t Montana. It was, it was somewhere up there in the north. Well, your typical labels of red state and blue state. The blue states were more restrictive in their, their rules than the red states were. But I think everybody had some prohibitions and restrictions. Not. No, there was one state that did nothing. Who was it? I can’t, I don’t know.

I mean, yeah, they didn’t, they said, look, you don’t have to shut down. And they had the smallest amount of deaths per capita. I, I, I’ll tell you, I’d say, what, Montana or Idaho, somewhere like that was Christy Gnome. What did she, what was she in? South Dakota. That’s what it was then. Really? Yes. Yeah, pretty sure they, you know, you could look it up in, in Google. What state didn’t. But anyway, they had the lowest mortality rate. They just, they said, look, if you’re scared, stay in. If you’re not scared, go do whatever you want to do.

Yeah, she’s forming a Trump lonely hearts club, her and Tulsi Gabbard. So I just. Yeah, we live in crazy times, man. I’ll tell you. I would only take an overnight bag. If you get appointed to the Trump cabinet, you don’t know if you’re going to remain or not. I would assume the guy’s looking for results. That’s all he wants. Yeah, well, women don’t last very long there. I’m not going to say a word. I was thinking the same thing, but we’ll let that go. Yeah, I, I only know I heard Christie was having an affair with somebody else, and maybe that’s the reason she had to step down.

I, I don’t know the accuracy on that, however. I guess it was true, but what does that matter? And then I have no idea what Tulsi Gabbard. I, I don’t believe it. I mean, I don’t believe that she’s stepping down for cancer reasons. I, I think she is. Her husband had cancer long before this and listen, I hope the best for him. I’m not, I think that’s the excuse. I think something else happened. I don’t know what it is. I could tell you. I could tell you what happened. It’s called Israel and the Charlie Kirk files.

And then having the CIA files taking taken by subordinates from the CIA who were under Tulsi Gabbard’s command as Director of National Intelligence, and they walk in and help themselves to the JFK files, the UFO files. Not that I think there’ll be anything to see, but those haven’t been released yet. I mean this, the CIA is running the country to a large extent and she’s the boss and she’s the on the wrong. Joe Kent was fired because he told Susie Wiles, who happened to run Netanyahu’s campaign in 2023, we want the files on foreign governments and the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

And she said, you’re not getting them. And Cash Patel was in that meeting nodding his head yes. And Tulsi was in the meeting pushing for release of the files. And Joe Kent made the argument, I’m head of counterterrorism. If someone came into this country and killed Charlie, we have a right to know. And they said, go pound sand. And he got fired. Crazy. Well, let’s hope this all comes out, Dave, because I can tell you, the American people is kind of sick of it. You know, we all are. Well, here’s the bottom line. We’re being conquered by data centers.

You know, I read a poll the other day. You’ll like this one. Only 47% of the country would accept being in the vicinity of a nuclear reactor. When I asked the same question about data Centers, it was 71% against. I’m not kidding. That’s how unpopular it is. And then you got the war. Three out of four people in this country don’t want this war. They know. I think they’re starting to figure out what it’s doing to the economy and they don’t want it. And of course we’re using the age old weapons of mass destruction. Okay, I got a quiz question for you.

How many times has the US Government used weapons of mass destruction as an excuse to start a conflict? I have no idea. I did a podcast on this. 14. The first one was in 1982. Reagan was the first one to use it. And what was it? I don’t recall who the country was, but it was the weapon of mass destruction. Because I consider a weapon of mass destruction at atomic bomb. At that time it was the fact that he thought someone got a hold of plutonium. And I, I don’t remember if it was Libya. You remember the Marine barracks that got blown up on his watch? It was related to that.

And 300 Marines were killed. And so he hit him with an atomic bomb. No, no. He said that this country also had plutonium and used his excuse to take a military action. But that was the first one. And then I, I tell you, my wife and I were sitting at a son’s game in the 90s, and at the end of the first quarter of a good game, George W. Bush comes on the jumbotron. I guess it was in every arena in America that was playing a game and said, my greatest fear is a mushroom cloud over an American city.

Therefore, I’m announcing that we dispatched bombers two hours ago and they bombed the enemy. I mean, that was effectively what he said. So they used it as an excuse to go in. There you go. Weapons of mass production. And Scott Ritter, who was doing the weapons search for the U.N. he said, we never found any weapons of mass destruction. It’s a lie. It’s always a lie. Yes, it’s because they just needed to use an excuse to go in there and do whatever the hell it is to do they needed to do so. Oh, you’re exactly right.

But anyway, this is the kind of news that won’t get censored. I can’t put this on YouTube. They’ll censor me right off the air. I’ll put excerpts on. Don’t worry. I’m going to put excerpts on here. But I can’t. I can’t put the whole thing up here because, you know, the Purple Hill are liberals, so they’ll get upset. Sorry, but they will. I’m going to break this up into three parts. You’ll like what I do with it. Now on Rumble. I can probably get away with putting this on Rumble. I’ve never had a trouble with censorship.

And Rumble. There you go. Yeah. So you’ll get some legs with this on Rumble, and then you’ll have it on my platform. Your platform Also, we’re gonna put it out on our podcast and our radio network. Hey, we’re on a FM station. I think it’s near Jacksonville. I don’t remember the letters. Sorry. They just. They picked up our show about six weeks ago. What was it? No, it’s an FM station. And I got to be honest with you, I forgot the call letters. Dave Krieger actually owns a station, and he called me and says, I’d like to put your show on there.

And he has really good people, and I was really honored that he asked me and I’m sorry, Dave Krieger. I forgot the call letters here. I’m having a senior moment. That’s okay. No, I, I. The reason I was asking is because I think I was looking at one over the weekend. I’m going to look it up. This is in Jacksonville. It’s. I think it’s in that area. Yeah. You know, and I’ll, I’ll do a search while we’re talking here, because my files are out in the, The, Our Audio studio. So he’s got the Krieger files. Yeah, well, Dave Krieger does a really good job with what he does.

FM stations in Florida. Anyway. Sam. Yes. How many people come to your site now? You said it was a million and a half. Yeah, we’re pushing a million and a half people a month and that’s what 6,000 creators will do. So whereas Rumble has 250,000 creators and they had 50 over 52 million people last month. So if we were down to, let’s say 5,000 creators, we’d be at about a million. So it’s literally they’re 50 times bigger than us, but the traffic is about the same. So by the time we have a quarter million creators, we should have about 50 million visitors.

The, the difference being is even though we could carry shows like Rumble and we have a few hundred creators like that, ours, our niche is local news. And it’s not the stuff you’re ever going to find at Substack. You know, nobody’s going to pay for the school board meeting or the city council meeting or the high school football game. So the content that we have is, is going to be complete local news that nobody’s going to pay for, but it’s going to be supported by local advertisers. Right. And that’s, and that’s our model. And so to me, you know, I always say we’re a people powered press and you know, I’ve, you know, some of your audience has made investments in our company and we’ve expanded and grown.

But if you’re truly a news organization, that’s by the people, for the people. The people should own the product. And the problem that we have now is the way the world works. Companies like mine that have this kind of scale will typically get funded through Silicon Valley. And it’s all institutional money. And the way it works is the institutional money comes in, they’re the ones that get all the cheap stock. They scale the business until it’s massive and then right when they’re taking it public, the public can get in. So what we’re doing is the exact opposite, Dave.

We’re doing something called an equity crowdfund, which is done through a broker dealer. So it’s all, it’s all, it’s all done through a brokerage firm, but it allows everybody to be able to participate. A lot of people may have heard of angel studios, they raise capital for their movies, but they do it through an equity crowdfund, which is not like a give send go. This is actual securities and they’re buying stocks. Stock. So we’re raising capital through something called an equity crowdfund. We did our first offering that was shut down April 30th. I just launched another one which is very small at the same number on another platform.

And we’re just getting that one rolling, but that one I believe we’re raising about 365,000 only then the new one’s going to be at a much higher number number. And by the way, Dave, I told you how they value platforms, right? Didn’t I share it? So I’m going to share this with your audience. It’s not on accurate. So a platform with nobody using it is worthless. Right? Like so if YouTube or Facebook had nobody using it, there would be no value to the platform. It only the only values from your creator base. And there’s two types of creators.

You have the ones like Facebook and X where everybody could have an account. Then you have the ones like YouTube or TikTok or Rumble or Instagram, which are more, more influencers where they have a different value. So the value to creator based models is very simple. You take the market cap of the company. So we use Rumble because it’s the easiest. Rumble has 250,000 creators and they have a market cap of 2.5 billion. Last I checked it was 2.75 life, but just say 2.5 food and it bounces between 2 and 3 billion. So 2 1/2 is about an average number.

Each creator then is worth $10,000. Dave, did you know you’re worth ten grand at rumble? Oh, you’re at all of them. It doesn’t matter. Oh yeah, it doesn’t matter. That’s how they value all of them. YouTube’s the same thing. I mean they had, they did an audit and they’re worth 550 billion and they had 61 million creators. So do the math. And that was the estimate, between 5 and 600 billion. So there are about 10,000 a creator. So our platform has 6,000 creators, which gives it a value of 60 million. That’s how they value these things.

So the point I’m trying to make is by the time we have 100,000 creators, you’ll have a billion dollar market cap. And that’s when I plan on taking this public. Somewhere between 50 and 100,000 creators. There’s no shortage of content creators. It’s just a matter of onboarding them and that’s all we’re doing. So for anybody interested in making an investment, you can go to your news Go to the bottom of the page and click on Invest. You’ll see a page pop up which has all the information you can. You know, there’s a video that’s up there you could watch if you like.

Can we show that where to go on the website? Yeah. You want me to do it? Yeah. Okay, hold on, let me get there. And for audio audience here only, I’ll describe what we’re doing here. Sam is pulling this up and I’ll describe exactly where you got to go. So which is. You can either do top or bottom of the page, right? Well, yeah, but from here, you know, it’s it. This says Houston and I’m not Houston. It’s because it’s the last place I was. But to give you an idea, this, this website, this is all national news.

But if I go to local news and Dave, Houston is exploding for me. So this is local news for the Houston market and it could be local entertainment, local, you know, this is all things that are happening in Houston prepares for an intimate night out. So all of this content is all boots on the ground reporting. And I’ll go to food and wine here just so you could see this. This is all local stuff that’s happening in Houston. Isn’t that cool? But did they cover their early exit from the NBA playoffs here? Let’s see. Local edition, all sports.

Now that could be national news, but this is like local sports things that are happening there. Right. Whereas if I went to where I live in Palm City 3, where am I at? 34990. So this would be for the market. So we have the St. Lucie Mets here. So this is all local baseball in this particular area. Isn’t that cool? Yeah, it is very cool. If you go down to the bottom of the page, you’ll see invest and if you click it, this is our new equity crowdfund page. And you could read this and there’s a short video you can watch.

We’re going to be changing this out today with the new one. The total max offering is 365 grand. And then once we complete this one, which we will, we will start another one. But that one’s. I’m. I will tell you what I’m guessing it’s going to be. It’s going to be either a three million dollar offering at four bucks or another million at three dollars. So you’re going to go up 50 or 100% from this. What do people eventually get from investing with this? So here’s the plan. We have 6,000 or just a tad under 6,000 creators.

I’m going, I want to get that to between fifty thousand and a hundred thousand creators. Here’s the reason why at 50,000 creators, at 10,000 per per creator, you’re talking about a 500 million dollar market cap. a hundred thousand creators, you’re talking a billion. Well, the reason I’m throwing these numbers out there, accurate numbers, is when you go public and you’re selling, let’s say I’m going to do 100 million dollar raise. Well, if I do it with 50,000 creators, I’m giving up 20% of the company. If I do it at a hundred thousand, I’m giving up 10.

Now the reason for this is why are we in the mess we’re in today? It’s because of the legacy media. It’s because. It’s because they’ve been able to control the narrative. They’ve acquired all the media companies and they’ve rolled them all up where now you have six institutions that control everything. And it’s, they’ve been pushing an agenda. So what I don’t want is for institutional money to be able to control the narrative and change the culture, Dave. That’s the reason. So I’m doing this backwards. So here’s what I was getting at though with my question. Is there a return in someone’s pocket for becoming an investor? Yeah.

So here’s what you have to ask yourself. The valuation we put on the company is 20 million right now. Okay. We have 6, 000 creators, which if you look up the market cap for Rumble and look up the amount of channels there are, that’s divide them into each other, that’s going to be the value of a creator. So here’s the question is, you have to ask yourself this, is there a marketplace for this? And, and if there’s a marketplace, am I going to get bigger or smaller in the next two years? In other words, when we have this conversation, Dave and I know we had a conversation when I had at least 2 or 2,500 content creators, remember that? Okay, now we’re at 6,000.

We’re gonna have another conversation. I’m gonna say, Dave, we’re at 20. We’re gonna have another conversation. I’m gonna say, Dave, I’m at 50. The whole value to the digital property changes. So that’s the only. Is there a market, is there a need for a citizen powered press? Is the legacy media going to survive? And if it doesn’t survive, what’s going to take its place? That’s the first question. And the second question is, are we going to get smaller or bigger in the next few years? Because the return is going to be the ipo. So if we’re going IPO at a hundred thousand content creators expect the valuation to be a billion dollars and you pay 20 million.

Do the math. That’s how simple this is. Okay. There’s no more sense. Yeah. So we’re looking for investors. I want a small amount to take the total.365, by the way, people can make a $300 investment if they want. It doesn’t matter. I need 3,000 shareholders over the next 24 months. Maybe 36, because it takes 3,000 and we’ve got about 350 or 400 right now. Okay, I’m seeing the numbers here on the screen. That makes sense. But I can see a day where when this stock splits, people are going to get a nice dividend. Dave, all you have to do is if we have 50,000 creators, just know that this thing is worth $500 million.

If you pay 20, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out what the value is. Okay, yes. So you’re looking at a, a massive upside. The question is, are we going to be capitalized properly to get to the finish line? I’m gonna make sure that happens. So we’ll get there. And it’s. Look, what I do is inevitable. Okay, seriously, how bad are the numbers in the legacy media? They’re not good. And they’re declining because the average age of people watching Cable News is 73 years old and nobody’s following up behind. On another note, I told you these numbers, this was last year.

I didn’t even look up this year. But total viewership between the age demographic of 25 and 54 for the first quarter last year was a total of 500,000 people over three months. That’s the problem. The problem is the 25 and 30 year olds. You really think they’re watching Fox and CNN and abc? No, they’re watching shows like yours. They’re on TikTok, Instagram. It’s all going to creator based platforms. That’s what we are, is a creator based platform. You’re telling me from your numbers I get more audience than Jesse Waters? I wouldn’t doubt it. I mean, Dave, so you’re, you’re open to the World Wide Web? Yeah.

Fox News is stuck in, in a box. Yeah. Okay, so, okay, so here’s, you’re open to 7 billion people. They’re not. Yeah, I was going to say with Jesse’s Famous saying, here’s water and I own his world. But I ain’t talking about UFOs too much. Anyway, he did a whole piece on that. He had on something. Samuel Laugh. I wish I had the picture to show you. He had a depiction of four alien races that have allegedly visited here. And he had their heights, like the grays were 4ft tall. The Nordics, what I call the tall Swedish guys.

They’re like 7ft tall. I want them on my NBA team. And then you had the praying mantis that was like 10ft tall. Okay, Someone had a little too much to drink at the Pentagon that night when they put it together. But anyway, that he ran that on a show, you know, I mean, I’ve seen stuff that I can’t explain in the sky that actually made it to 60 Minutes. It was over our heads. I’ve seen it before. I mean, you’d have to be crazy to think that we’re the only beings in the universe, right? Yeah, yeah.

The Bible’s silent on that. And I have no problem with God creating other creatures or forms of life. But here’s what’s interesting about that, though. Okay? I saw the phoenix lights. I was out. This is when we lived in the city. I was out shooting baskets in my driveway, and I looked out and there they were. I saw the phoenix lights, but I did not see the Praying Manus or the tall Nordics in my room that night. Okay. There’s a limit to what I believe. Well, I’m sure if there are aliens out there and they’re flying these crafts, there’s got to be somebody in those things, and we just don’t know what they look like.

For all you know, maybe it’s AI and Peter Thiel’s running them. Who knows? It could be. We have absolutely. We. We have absolutely no idea. But I’d love to know because everybody else would, you know, are there. Are there aliens walking among us? Nobody knows. That’s an interesting thought, isn’t it? Well, you know, I know a couple people. I think they’re really weird. I mean, almost alien. Did you ever see the movie they Live? I don’t know. Probably not. No. I don’t think so. Oh, okay. It was in the 80s, and it was like you could see the subliminal messages and the billboards if you put these special sunglasses on.

I kid you not. This is a real movie. It was actually really popular in the 80s, and you could recognize aliens if you had the glasses on. You’d see their real alien face. They look kind of like Insectoids. And it was, like I said, a pretty popular movie. They live. Was it a show or a movie? It was a movie. Ah. I’d say it was like late 80s. Okay. So, you know, it was kind of fun, you know, for the significant other, you know, get a bottle of beer, watch it and laugh, you know, it’s okay.

But. Yeah, you know, you might be right. But look at me. Maybe you’ll have to open up a branch in a different zip code on a different planet. You never know. We might be. We might end up going universe. You know, I, I’m. I hear there’s aliens on the moon. Yeah, I would highly doubt that. Okay, I, I gotta tell you a story. This is a true story. The late Bill Pollock, who is my mentor in this business, former intel guy, brilliant, brilliant scientist. He used to have these meetings in the 90s I got invited to.

And he would have scientists and astronauts and some, A few politicians and, and we would share stories, but we all had to sign an NDA. And the purpose of the meeting was, let’s tell what we know and maybe we can put together a comprehensive picture about what’s really going on. Because if you know anything about the intel world, everything’s compartmentalized. So A doesn’t know what B is doing. And so one of the astronauts was there and I’m not going to say his name, but I’ll narrow it down for you, okay? He said, yeah, on the moon, we saw things that I could never talk about.

And he said they saw. He said, he said they saw structures on the moon. So. And he got a little more detail. If I say, you know, I’m waiting for this to come out because it’s going to come out publicly at some time, and then I’ll tell you exactly who, who it was and exactly what he did. So I was in the room, I heard it in a room about 30 people. And Bill had kind of like an offshoot room, like a little banquet room attached to his house. And that’s where he held the meetings. And it was at a place called La Placitas, New Mexico, just north of Albuquerque.

I mean, it was fascinating stuff. He had my good friend Vance Davis, you know, the nsa, I mean, and the stories these people told. I’ll put it to you this way. You know how the Internet, that was invented in 1963 as an offshoot communication against losing, communication for nuclear war, we don’t see it till almost 35 years later. Microwaves, 40s to the 70s, we call that technological lag the technological lag that I learned about in these meetings, we’re probably 200 years behind what we really know how to do. I’m not joking when I say that I met the people.

Yeah. Because sometimes 200 years ago, they, they, they were riding horses and they didn’t have guns and they were chopping people’s heads off. Well, you never know. But see, here’s the thing. What I like about your site though, is people are free to tell the truth and there’s no censorship. You can talk about the CIA testimony from a whistleblower that said that Fauci lied about COVID and it was a lab leak from China that happened last week. And Senator Paul covered this extensively. So, I mean, this, I, I was kind of surprised that some of this even aired on Fox.

I was really surprised. But that’s the kind of stuff that errors on your site and people can just tell the truth. But I also like the fact too, if I want to know what’s going on in my parents hometown of Marshalltown, Iowa, I want to know how their football team’s doing. I can probably go and find out. Yeah, Dave, it this again, what we do is inevitable. If I don’t do it, somebody else will. Yeah. And you really, if you want to control everything, you really want to control the next mainstream media. And I don’t mean control it as to limit who could post.

I’m talking about, you want, you don’t want the wrong people to own this. The George Soros is of the world. So this is why we’re doing the equity crowdfund, so the people can actually own the product. Because to me, that probably is the most important thing we do is disseminate this product out to the people. So by the time we’re going public, the, the institutional money will come in. You’ll get it, a lot of it. But they won’t have any equity control because the equity they’re buying is not big enough to control anything. Yeah, well, what you’re doing is you’re limiting how much people can bring in.

And that’ll keep someone like BlackRock or some other equity firm to come in and buy controlling interest in a media company. Now they control the content. Exactly. So this is why, you know, I mean, nobody offers $365,000 in stock. Nobody does that. It’s a very small amount. Then we’re going to bump the level. Maybe we’ll do another million at a $30 million valuation. So it’s really small number. I want lots of people. That’s Smart. That is, that’s the way to build it. And that’s smart. But I like it because it’s free, it’s local, it’s national. And you’re going international too.

You told me, I think you said this before we went on air. You’re going into Canada. Canada will be the next country we open. And that, and that’s just because I already have so many creators. I did. I, I told you earlier I was talking to a woman from Italy. So we would, we may have. Well, she already set up an account. So now we’re going to start getting news coming out of Italy. I mean it’s, it’s would be called world news. So it’s not going to be local stuff. This is going to be stuff that would be more international and we’re building a news outlet.

But it’s a complete people powered press. You have to know this is where it’s all going. Like I said, if it’s not me, somebody else. Yeah, the void is, the void is too vast. So there’s nobody that does this. So my next call after you is with another gentleman who’s a journalist, but then after that is with a group of people. They do hockey news. Now you might think, well, big deal. Well, no, it’s not because I’m a platform. And so just like the New York Times and the Washington Post and Fox News and ABC and NBC has a YouTube channel.

These guys, by the time I’m done are going to have a. Your news channel and they’re going to be distributing all the hockey news. Makes sense. Fox News may open a channel on your site just as Fox News may open a channel. Right? That’s funny. Hey Sam, we’re out of time. Yes. Want to reiterate to people? You can go at the bottom of the page. This is how I signed up. You can become a content creator. Just fill it out. There’s a form there and you’ll see it. It’s real obvious there you can be and you can become an investor.

I did both. In fact, I invested twice and I believe in what Sam’s doing. It’s honest journalism. And I never thought I would use those two words in the same sentence, but here we can. Sam, thanks for joining us here. Thanks, Dave. Good to see you again. And I’ll be on in the next couple months giving you the update. Hopefully we’re at about 8, 000 contact creators. Sounds good, buddy. Talk to you later. All right, bye.
[tr:tra].